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	Dr. Quan YUAN<br>
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<strong>Email</strong>: <a href="mailto:qyuan[AT]fb.com">qyuan@fb.com</a>
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Facebook HQ<br>
1 Hacker Way<br>
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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	<a href="#biography">Biography</a>
	<a href="#research">Research Interests</a>
	<a href="#publications">Publications</a>
	<a href="#professional">Professional Activities</a>
	<a href="#awards">Awards</a>
	<a href="tonyyuango.github.io/files/CV_yuan_en.pdf">  Curriculum Vitae</a>
	<a href="tonyyuango.github.io/files/datacode.html">Data & Code</a>
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<h3 id="biography">  Biography </h3>

Quan Yuan is a Research Scientist at Facebook.

<!--Quan Yuan is a postdoctoral research associate in the <a href="http://dm1.cs.uiuc.edu/">Data Mining Research Group</a>, <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/">Department of Computer Science</a>, <a href="http://illinois.edu/">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a>, working with <a href="http://hanj.cs.illinois.edu/">Prof. Jiawei Han</a>. -->
He received B.E. degree from <a href="http://scs.bupt.edu.cn/cs_web/English/outer/index.htm">School of Computer</a>, <a href="http://english.bupt.edu.cn/">Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications</a>, China in 2010, and received Ph.D. degree from <a href="http://scse.ntu.edu.sg/">School of Computer Science and Engineering</a>, <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/">Nanyang Technological University</a>, Singapore in 2015. His Ph.D. supervisor is <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/gaocong/">Prof. Gao Cong</a>. During September 2014 to April 2015, he was a project officer at the <a href="http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/dante/">Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Lab</a>, , <a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/">Nanyang Technological University</a>. After that, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the <a href="http://dm1.cs.uiuc.edu/">Data Mining Research Group</a>, <a href="https://cs.illinois.edu/">Department of Computer Science</a>, <a href="http://illinois.edu/">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a>, working with <a href="http://hanj.cs.illinois.edu/">Prof. Jiawei Han</a>.
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<h3 id="research"> Research Interests </h3>
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<li> Real-Time Bidding.</li>
<li> Spatiotemporal Mobility Modeling for Individual Users.</li>
<li> Recommender Systems</li>
<li> Text Mining</li>
<li> Natral Language Processing</li>
<li> Database Systems</li>
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<h3 id="publications"> Publications </h3>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Open-Schema Event Profiling for Massive News Corpora</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Xiang Ren, Wenqi He, Chao Zhang, Xinhe Geng, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Chin-Yew Lin, Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(<strong>CIKM '18</strong>), 587-596, Torino, Italy, October 22 - 26, 2018.<br>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">GeoBurst+: Effective and Real-Time Local Event Detection in Geo-Tagged Tweet Streams</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Dongming Lei, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Honglei Zhuang, Lance M. Kaplan, Shaowen Wang, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology(<strong>TIST</strong>), Volume 9 Issue 3, February, 2018.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Detecting Multiple Periods and Periodic Patterns in Event Time Sequences</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Jingbo Shang, Xin Cao, Chao Zhang, Xinhe Geng, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(<strong>CIKM '17</strong>), 617-626, Singapore, November 6-10, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Urbanity: A System for Interactive Exploration of Urban Dynamics from Streaming Human Sensing Data</span>.
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Mengxiong Liu, Zhengchao Liu, Chao Zhang,  Keyang Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Tim Hanratty, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 10st ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining(<strong>CIKM '17</strong>, demo), 2503-2506, Singapore, November 6-10, 2017.<br>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Towards Space and Time Coupled Social Media Analysis</span>.
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Chao Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(<strong>CIKM '17</strong>, tutorial), Singapore, November 6-10, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">ReAct: Recency-Aware Urban Activity Modeling from Geo-Tagged Social Media Streams</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Keyang Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Fangbo Tao, Luming Zhang, Tim Hanratty, Lance Kaplan, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval(<strong>SIGIR '17</strong>), 245-254, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 7-11, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">TrioVecEvent: Embedding-Based Online Local Event Detection in Geo-Tagged Tweet Streams</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Liyuan Liu, Dongming Lei, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Honglei Zhuang, Tim Hanratty, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(<strong>KDD '17</strong>), 595-604, Halifax, NS, Canada, August 13 - 17, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bridging Collaborative Filtering and Semi-Supervised Learning: A Neural Approach for POI recommendation</span>.
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Carl Yang, Lanxiao Bai, Chao Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(<strong>KDD '17</strong>), 1245-1254, Halifax, NS, Canada, August 13 - 17, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Spatio-temporal Topic Detection from Social Media</span>.
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Kaiqi Zhao, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Gao Cong.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (book chapter), 1-9, 2017.<br>
<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">PRED: Periodic Region Detection for Mobility Modeling of Social Media Users</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Wei Zhang, Chao Zhang, Xinhe Geng, Gao Cong, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 10st ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining(<strong>WSDM '17</strong>), 263-272, Cambridge, UK, February 6-10, 2017.<br>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">An Experimental Evaluation of Pointof-interest Recommendation in Location-based Social Networks</span>.
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Yiding Liu, Pham Nguyen Tuan Anh, Gao Cong, and <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment(<strong>PVLDB '17</strong>), 10(10):1010¿1021, June, 2017.<br>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">ContextCare: Incorporating Contextual Information Networks to Representation Learning on Medical Forum Data</span>.
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Stan Zhao, Meng Jiang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Bing Qin, Ting Liu, ChengXiang Zhai.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(<strong>IJCAI '17</strong>), 3497-3503, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bringing Semantics to Spatiotemporal Data Mining: Challenges, Methods, and Applications</span>.
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Chao Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering(<strong>ICDE '17</strong> tutorial), San Diego, California, USA, April 19-22, 2017.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">A Survey on Spatiotemporal and Semantic Data Mining</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Chao Zhang, and Jiawei Han.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling (book chapter), Springer, 43-57, 2018.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Regions, Periods, Activities: Uncovering Urban Dynamics via Cross-Modal Representation Learning</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Keyang Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Haoruo Peng, Yu Zheng, Tim Hanratty, Shaowen Wang and Jiawei Han
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 26rd World Wide Web Conference(<strong>WWW '17</strong>), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Towards Personalized Maps: Mining User Preferences from Geo-textual Data</span>.
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Kaiqi Zhao and, Yiding Liu, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Lisi Chen, Zhida Chen, Gao Cong.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> <strong>PVLDB</strong>, 9(13):1545-1548, 2016.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Collaborative Multi-Level Embedding Learning from Reviews for Rating Prediction</span>.
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Wei Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Jiawei Han, and Jianyong Wang.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(<strong>IJCAI '16</strong>), 2986--2992, New York, NY, USA., July 9-15, 2016.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">GMove: Group-Level Mobility Modeling Using Geo-Tagged Social Media</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Keyang Zhang, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Luming Zhang, Tim Hanratty, Jiawei Han<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(<strong>KDD '16</strong>), 675-686, San Francisco, CA, USA., August 13-17, 2016.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">GeoBurst: Real-Time Local Event Detection in Geo-Tagged Tweet Streams</span>.
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Chao Zhang, Guangyu Zhou, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Honglei Zhuang, Yu Zheng, Lance M. Kaplan, Shaowen Wang, and Jiawei Han<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval(<strong>SIGIR '16</strong>), 513-522, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who, Where, When and What: A Non-parametric Bayesian Approach to Context-aware Recommendation and Search for Twitter Users</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, Kaiqi Zhao, Zongyang Ma, and Aixin Sun.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the ACM Transaction of Information Systems(<strong>TOIS</strong>), 33(1):2, 2015.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where You Instagram?: Associating Your Instagram Photos with Points of Interest</span>.
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Xutao Li, Tuan Anh Nguyen Pham, Gao Cong, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Xiaoli Li, and Shonali Krishnaswamy.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(<strong>CIKM '15</strong>), 1231-1240, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 19 - 23, 2015.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Personalized Ranking Metric Embedding for Next New POI Recommendation</span>.
<br>
Shanshan Feng, Xutao Li, Yifeng Zeng, Gao Cong, Yeow Meng Chee, and <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong><br>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(<strong>IJCAI '15</strong>), 2069-2075, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">SAR: A Sentiment-aspect-region Model for User Preference Analysis in Geo-tagged Reviews</span>.
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Kaiqi Zhao, Gao Cong, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Kenny Q. Zhu.
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering(<strong>ICDE '15</strong>), 675-686, Seoul, Korea, Apirl 13-17, 2015.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">A Tri-role Topic Model for Domain-specific Question Answering</span>.
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Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Gao Cong. <br>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(<strong>AAAI '15</strong>), 224-230, Austin, Texas, USA., January 25-30, 2015.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Graph-based Point-of-interest Recommendation with Geographical and Temporal Influences</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, and Aixin Sun.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (<strong>CIKM '14</strong>), 659-668,
Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tagging Your Tweets: A Probabilistic Modeling of Hashtag Annotation in Twitter</span>.
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Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Gao Cong.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (<strong>CIKM '14</strong>), 999-1008,
Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.<br>
</span></li>


<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">COM: A Generative Model for Group Recommendation</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, and Chin-Yew Lin.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>KDD '14</strong>), 163-172, New York City, NY, USA, August 24-27, 2014.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where Your Photo Is Taken: Geolocation Prediction for Social Images</span>.
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Bo Liu, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, and Dong Xu.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (<strong>JASIST</strong>), 65(6):1232-1243, June 2014.<br>
</span></li>

<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who, Where, When and What: Discover Spatio-temporal Topics for Twitter Users</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, and Nadia M. Thalmann.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>KDD'13</strong>), 605-613, Chicago, IL, USA. August 11-14, 2013.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Time-aware Point-of-interest Recommendation</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, and Nadia M. Thalmann.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (<strong>SIGIR'13</strong>), 363-372, Dublin, Ireland, July 28-August 1, 2013.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Topic-driven Reader Comments Summarization</span>.
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Zongyang Ma, Aixin Sun, <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, and Gao Cong.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management (<strong>CIKM '12</strong>),265-274, Maui, USA, October 29-November 2, 2012.<br>
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<li class="b">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Category Hierarchy Maintenance: A Data-driven Approach</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, Aixin Sun, Chin-Yew Lin, and Nadia M. Thalmann.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval (<strong>SIGIR '12</strong>), 791-800, Portland, OR, USA., August 12-16, 2012.<br>
</span></li>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Enhancing Naive Bayes with Various Smoothing Methods for Short Text Classification</span>.
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<strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>, Gao Cong, and Nadia M. Thalmann.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web (<strong>WWW '12</strong>), 645-646, Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Approaches to Exploring Category Information for Question Retrieval in Community Question-answer Archives</span>.
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Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Bin Cui, Christian S. Jensen, and <strong><em>Quan Yuan</em></strong>.
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<span style="font-style: italic;">ACM Transactions on Information Systems (<strong>TOIS</strong>), 30(2):7, May 2012.<br>
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<h3 id="professional"> Professional Activities</h3>
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<li> Intern at <a href="http://www.msra.cn/"><strong>Knowledge Mining Group, Microsoft Research Asia</strong></a>, Aug.2013~Nov.2013<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Memtor: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cyl/">Dr. Chin-Yew Lin</a></span>
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<li> Intern at <a href="http://net.pku.edu.cn/"><strong>Institute of Network Computing and Information Systems, Peking University</strong></a>, Jul.2009~Jun.2010<br>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Supervisor: <a href="http://net.pku.edu.cn/~cuibin/">Prof. Bin Cui</a></span>
</li>
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Reviewer: <span style="font-style: italic;">ICDE '19, '18, CIKM '18, '17, TKDE '16, '15, TOIS '18, '16, ADMA '17, MIS '17, APWeb-WAIM '17, CCL '17, DSAA '16, IJCIS '17, JASIST '17, IPM '15, WWWJ '15, NEUCOM '15, PMC '16, '15, PRL '14, KAIS '17, '16, JISE '16, '15, '14, FCS '16, JCST '16, T-ASE '16, TSC '17, '16</span>
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Session Chair: <span style="font-style: italic;">CIKM 2018</span>
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<h3 id="awards"> Awards </h3>
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<li> <strong>Student Travel Grant</strong>, ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2014</li>
<li> <strong>Student Travel Grant</strong>, ACM SIGIR Conference, 2013</li>
<li> <strong>Student Travel Grant</strong>, ACM SIGKDD Conference, 2012</li>
<li> <strong>Student Travel Grant</strong>, ACM SIGIR Conference, 2012</li>
<li> <strong>NTU PhD Scholarship</strong>, Nanyang Technological University, 2010</li>
<li> <strong>National Scholarship of China</strong>, Ministry of Education of the PRC, 2009</li>
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